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Quickest way to replicate small files on 4 machines?If you are going to use NFS and "cp" instead, that could work. You have have a different set of problems (if any 1 machine fails, the other 3 will hang waiting for their NFS server to come back to life). You now have a very different question and should consider changing the title of this question to "How can I replicate small files between 4 machines?"